Block 12 Naval Aviation Heritage Flashcards
What is the birthday of Naval Aviation?
May 8 1911
14 November 1910
First Takeoff from a ship.
Eugene Ely took off in a 50hp Curtiss plane from a wooden platform built on the bow of USS BIRMINGHAM.
8 MAY 1911
Captain Chambers prepared requisitions for two Glenn Curtiss biplane that lacked the signature of the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation
20 June 1913
Ensign Billingsley piloting the B2 at 1600 feet over the water near Annapolis was thrown from the plane and fell to his death. First fatality of Naval Aviation
22 October 1917
Special courses to train men as inspectors were added to the Ground school program at MIT with 14 men enrolled.
20 March 1922
The Jupiter, a former Collier or coal carrier, was re commissioned after conversion to the Navy’s first carrier. The USS LANGLEY CV-1
1948
The Navy commissioned its first helicopter squadron HU-1 and the first carrier landing was made by a US Navy jet aboard USS BOXER
5 MAY 1961
Naval aviator Alan B Shepherd Jr became the first American to go into space
20-21 July 1969
Naval aviator Neil Armstrong walked on the moon
1994
The first of many naval aviators successfully passed fleet carrier qualifications in combat aircraft
Coral Sea 7-8 May 1942
The Worlds first carrier vs carrier battle. US carrier Lexington was sunk and Yorktown was damaged
Midway 3-5 June 1942
The turning point of the Pacific War. US sunk 4 Japanese carriers and Yorktown was sank
Guadalcanal 13-15 November 1942
The Sullivan brothers died onboard the USS Juneau which was torpedoed. Navy’s policy concerning family member separations was reinstated
11 Sep 2001
Hijackers flew two Boeing 767 airliners into the twin World Trade Center towers in New York.
30 September 2001
USS Theodore Roosevelt hoisted the first US flag raised over the rubble of the World Trade Center in NYC
